Dazed & Confusedtweeted last week that the cover of its September issue, which reportedly featured hot new rapper Azealia Banks smoking a condom like a cigar, had already been banned in seven countries, before it had even been released. How's that for hype?

On Wednesday, the magazine dropped the bomb and released the image. As promised, the Sharif Hamza-shot cover features Banks posing with an inflated bright pink condom between her lips like a giant cigar with the cheeky headline, "Azealia Banks Blows Up."

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Vogue, April 2008

Vogue's April 2008 shape issue featured NBA star LeBron James and Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen in a way that many believed perpetuated negative racial stereotypes about African American men. LeBron's forceful pose seemed to depict 'King Kong-like' aggression while Bundchen was depicted as a damsel in distress.
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